Help Sentinel Santa Load Up His Sleigh

December 17, 1985

Donations to Sentinel Santa are running behind last year's record-setting pace. The people of Central Florida were so generous last year that Sentinel Santa was expanded to include 8,000 new needy children in addition to the 10,000 already receiving toys. The toys go to youngsters in Orange, Seminole, Brevard, Osceola, Lake and west Volusia counties. Each child will receive two toys from Sentinel Santa if the goal of $220,000 is met. All of the money collected goes to purchase toys. The cost of administering the fund is paid by The Orlando Sentinel. In order to provide toys to all of the children who are eligible, Sentinel Santa must raise more than $90,000 in the next eight days.